Michael Menager Trio
LIVE MUSIC with ' Michael Menager Trio ' at the Tathra Hotel.
Sun 7th September 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Free admission.
Born east of LA, schooled in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s, Michael Menager came of age during the political upheaval of those times. Studying literature at university, Michael immersed himself in the writing of Chaucer, Shakespeare and John Donne, as well as writers and poets of the Beat Generation such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
Starting in high school, Michael studied and absorbed the styles of classic folk/blues artists like Mississippi John Hurt and Reverend Gary Davis, and has been greatly influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, John Prine and Townes Van Zandt.
Michael’s first two albums - Clean Exit (2014) and Not The Express (2016) - are musical portraits from a traveller who has worn many hats along the way yet always remained a student and seeker. The style is classic Americana – country blues, hints of folk and bluegrass, touches of jazz and early rock n’ roll - and the lyrics blend philosophy and poetry, telling of roads travelled and life lived: the occasional victories, and the defeats from which we must somehow rise again.
Singles from Line In The Water (2023), Michael’s third album, have streamed worldwide and featured on the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project’s Regional Chart and on Blues, Roots and Country playlists across Australia. More recently, the title track from the album has made it to the 2023 Semi-Finalists’ list of the Nashville- based International Songwriting Competition, awaiting the final selection round: watch this space!
The Michael Menager Trio was born at Cobargo Folk Festival 2017 and has been a feature of the South Coast music scene ever since. The current lineup features Sats Kramer (Kara Coen Band) on guitar, Dan Efraemson (Malumba) on violin, and singer/songwriter Michael Menager on guitar and vocals.
Michael’s lyrics cut along a philosophical edge, his style cuts across the musical spectrum from blues and swing to country and early rock n’roll, and his stories cut through the inner landscape of a poet and traveller – all framed and embellished by Kramer’s jazz/rock-influenced guitar and Efraemson’s hauntingly lyrical violin.
